John Worthen

An illuminating biography of a republican convicted of regicide, drawing on the letters he wrote from within the Tower of London. Henry Marten — soldier, member of parliament, organiser of the trial of Charles I, and signatory of the King’s death warrant — is today a neglected figure of the seventeenth century. Yet his life was both extraordinary and emblematic:...

Shattering longstanding myths, this new biography reveals the robust and positive life of one of the nineteenth century's greatest composers. This candid, intimate, and compellingly written new biography offers a fresh account of Robert Schumann’s life. It confronts the traditional perception of the doom-laden Romantic, forced by depression into a life of helpless, poignant sadness. John Worthen’s scrupulous attention to...